Transformations in Slavery : A History of Slavery in Africa

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This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African history. The book corrects the accepted interpretation that African slavery was mild and resulted in the slaves' assimilation. Instead, slaves were used extensively in production, although the exploitation methods and the relationships to world markets differed from those in the Americas. Nevertheless, slavery in Africa, like slavery in the Americas, developed from its position on the periphery of capitalist Europe. This new edition revises all statistical material on the slave trade demography and incorporates recent research and an updated bibliography.

Paul E. Lovejoy is a Distinguished Research Professor at York University and holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History.

List of Maps and Tables

p. x

Note on Currencies, Weights, and Measures

p. xii

Preface

p. xiii

Preface to the Second Edition

p. xvii

Preface to the Third Edition

p. xxi

Africa and Slavery

p. 1

On the Frontiers of Islam, 1400-1600

p. 24

The Export Trade in Slaves, 1600-1800

p. 45

The Enslavement of Africans, 1600-1800

p. 66

The Organization of Slave Marketing, 1600-1800

p. 88

Relationships of Dependency, 1600-1800

p. 108

The Nineteenth-Century Slave Trade

p. 135

Slavery and "Legitimate Trade" on the West African Coast

p. 160

Slavery in the Savanna during the Era of the Jihads

p. 185

Slavery in Central, Southern, and Eastern Africa in the Nineteenth Century